Re: Purana's
Namaste all!!
First of all thank you so much yajvan Ji for this knowledge.. I learned many things although many are beyond my limited knowledge to understand..
I have no right to talk on scriptures as I have read only 1 puran upanishad and geeta yet.. But sharing my views and correcting them by listening yours will increase my knowledge..
Puranas always confused me, even reading this thread my confusion till not gone.. So asking some question and sharing my understanding on them.. Hope members will tell me where I am wrong specially you yajvan ji..
I have a questions which may be common.. 1. Is they really are written by ved vyasa Ji??
I heard somewhere they are written by different peoples??
If they are written by ved vyasa Ji then why they all are much different?
If I try to answer my question which I do most of time ()-
I believe that there is much difference in Upanishads and puranas, (as yajvan ji pointed on smriti and shruti) I found more knowledge in Upanishads but in puranas there are only stories of particularly one deity and say to worship only that deity and if you worship other then its waste of time...
I am just in confusion and more I am getting deep more I am feeling confused.. I think purana are made for normal people one can say beginer in spiritual path while upanishad is for one who already established and experienced spirituality like wise brahmin..
So I think purpose of puranas are for making normal people to realise highest truth and hence it is more focused on devotion rather than knowledge..
Devotion is key, if one have devotion and surrender then knowledge, vairagya and other things come gradually and for devotion its necessary that one must concentrated on one particular deity (brahma, Vishnu or Shiva)
We all knows that brahma Vishnu Shiva Krishna devi ma all are one and only one.. The wise sees no difference in any one of them but it comes with experience with the supreme bliss of that God, if we say to beginner that all are one then he will say its foolish, he may agree and accept that but he will not realised it, he will not experience it..
So, for raising ones devotion to the one supreme deity I think puranas are made wisely by telling story of only one deity, by telling the benefit of worshipping him and no other deity to ensure that the reader will develope the true love and devotion for that particular deity..
So my this thinking tells my mind why they are different from puranas also why they are so concentrated on Brahma, Vishnu or Shiva..
But, then another question! Why all 18 puranas doesn't concentrate on 1 deity, isn't its simple? Why there is necessity of split them in three?
I understand Yajvan jis insight on gunas and how they classified according to gunas of reader, yuga and age..(still not satisfied)
Okay.. Again trying my old method to answer myself..
Prakriti is made up of three gunas and each one of us have them in some different proportions.. Some have sattva dominant while some have tamas dominant.. As all know.. Like that if one observes, there is so much difference in forms of Shiva Vishnu or Brahma Ji.. Some may attract to form of Vishnu Ji while some to Shiva Ji according to their gunas (as each form have some deeper and subconscious meaning promoting some guna which we recognised and attract subconsciously) in simple words take an example of book of cooking.. What written in that book.? Just cooking and recipes but in some there is only veg in some there is Chinese, Italian or Indian.. The person who love Chinese will not bought Italian book but its not mean Chinese is better that other books.. It's just his choice.. Okay going so much off topic..
I just wanted to say the prakriti contains this gunas and if anyone is absent then prakriti will destroy.. Again take example of cooking, all elements should be in proportion.. You can't make delicious food by adding only sweet or by adding only spicy.. Even human is not same at all time in all situations, he needs different gunas. You are the same but still sometime you are angry sometime happy and sometime sad.. Isn't the same person have different attributes? Then why one God can't have so many forms?
It's just depend on situation which guna you should have, like in battle Arjuna doesn't stop fighting by leading to akarma or due to plenty of mercy he felt before battle.. Is it not according to situation?
Assume if all are purely tamasik (inaction) then earth will destroy as no one will do anything.. If all sat and meditate like shiv ji then who will grow crops and who will make food? Like that if all are so much active and there is lack of stillness then also this sansar will not run smoothly..
So all elements are essential, this fight is just useless! All puranas are supreme and what written in them is true..
But this adversity have so much confusion for beginner like me.. If I read Vishnu purana and then directly shiv purana then I will definately be confused..
What I conclude (otherwise I will keep talking ) is that we have to choose which purana is suitable for us and just follow puranas related to them, once you achieve enough devotion, knowledge and experience to understand oneness of God then you can take knowledge from other puranas so one will not get confused by them as one already has the shield of awareness with him...
This all things come in my mind when I read this thread and I wrote them all (still many things I don't write) sorry for making it too large.. Please tell me what I am thinking is right? What should I add in this? Or this is totally wrong thinking?
Pranam...
Aasato ma sat gamay
tamaso ma jotirgamay
mrityorma amrutamgamay
(Bring me from asat to sat, bring me from darkness (ignorance) to light (knowledge), bring me from death to immortality)
Om Namah Shivay
Om Vishnave Namah
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